Toshio Masuda — Playwright (19)
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Exiled to Hell (1969) [Movie] TMDB
地獄の破門状
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Akira Kobayashi / Hideki Takahashi …
other title: 地獄の破門状
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and performer Kataoka Koshin is reaching its climax when the Tawaraya family interferes... This is an entertaining action film bursting with righteousness and humanity, centred on men who try to live righteously against a corrupt boss who preys on the performers.
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Taking the Castle (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
城取り
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Minoru Chiaki …
other title: 城取り / Taking The Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.
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Blood Shed (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
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Highteen Boogie (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ハイティーン・ブギ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Toshihiko Tahara / Yoshio Nomura …
other title: ハイティーン・ブギ / High Teen Boogie
Youth is energy and beauty. Racing gang Sho, Sammy and Shige have their own dream--car-racer, rock and roll and love. Sho falls in love with Momoko but disagreed by his father; Sammy loves rock and roll; Shige dreams of becoming a car-racer though his right fist is injured. As they are giving out their sparks of life, they are also learning the value of life.
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Velvet Hustler (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
紅の流れ星
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Tetsuya Watari / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 紅の流れ星
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.
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Tokyo Blackout (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
首都消失
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūko Natori / Shinji Yamashita …
other title: 首都消失
Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome-shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
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Red Pier (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤い波止場
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 赤い波止場
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
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Man of a Stormy Era (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
昭和のいのち
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 昭和のいのち
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.
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Red Handkerchief (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤いハンカチ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: Le mouchoir rouge / 赤いハンカチ
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
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Final Yamato (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 完結編
director: Takeshi Shirato / Yoshinobu Nishizaki … actor: Kei Tomiyama / Yoko Asagami …
other title: Yamato - L'ultima battaglia / Patrulha Estelar - O Final do Yamato …
The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar are destroyed. The Yamato, back under the command of Captain Okita, encounters the planet Denguil too late to save its humanoid civilization from being flooded by the water planet Aquarius. The surviving Denguil, a warrior race who believe only the strong should survive, plan to use Aquarius to flood Earth and destroy humanity, in order to create a new home for their race.
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Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
宇宙戦艦ヤマト 新たなる旅立ち
director: Toshio Masuda / Takeshi Shirato … actor: Kei Tomiyama / Yoko Asagami …
other title: Yamato: il nuovo viaggio / Uchuu Senkan Yamato - Aratanaru Tabidachi …
Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.
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Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
さらば宇宙戦艦ヤマト 愛の戦士たち
director: Toshio Masuda / Leiji Matsumoto actor: Kei Tomiyama / Yoko Asagami …
other title: Addio Yamato / Patrulha Estelar - Cometa Império …
The Yamato and her crew face the onslaught of the Comet Empire, a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy who seek to conquer Earth, led by Prince Zordar. They have harnessed a comet and is using its terrible power to unleash destruction upon its rivals and inferiors... which are in fact everyone. The Space Battleship Yamato heads back into action. But this time, it shall not return, and much of the Yamato crew have signed on for their last voyage.
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The Champion (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
勝利者
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Yōko Minamida …
other title: 勝利者 / Shori-sha …
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date.